[Ads-l] -splaining

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

From today's Washington Post -- "gunsplained":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/03/06/the-nra-and-its-allies-use-jargon-to-bully-gun-control-supporters/

"Has this happened to you? If so, you’ve been gunsplained: harangued with the pedantry of the more-credible-than-thou firearms owner, admonished that your inferior knowledge of guns and their nomenclature puts an asterisk next to your opinion on gun control."


> 
> "Mansplaining" was nominated in the Most Creative category in the 2012 ADS WOTY voting. In the "Among the New Words" recap for
> AmSp 88.2 (Summer 2013), the productivity of "-splain" was noted.
> 
> https://bit.ly/ATNW88-2
> "The patronizing act of mansplaining has been extended beyond gender divisions to racial and political ones, as in 'whitesplaining' and
> 'rightsplaining' (Clarence Page, “Rand Paul has Lotsa ’Splaining to Do,”
> Chicago Tribune, Apr. 13, 2013,
> http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-04-13/news/ct-oped-0414-page-20130413_1_rand-paul-conservatives-u-s-senate)
> ."
> 
> Mark Peters provided a nice roundup of "X-splaining" forms for Vocabulary.com in Oct. 2013.
> 
> https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/dictionary/mansplaining-spawns-a-new-suffix/
> 
> Then in the 2013 WOTY voting, "-splaining" lost out to "-shaming" in the ad-hoc Most Productive category.
> 
> https://www.americandialect.org/because-is-the-2013-word-of-the-year
> 
> --bgz
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 1:21 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > In today’s New York Times Book Review, two reviewers use this in
> > similar productive ways, clipped off from “mansplaining” to go its
> > separate ways (a la “burger” or “oholic”) while preserving the
> > connotation of a blithely patronizing condescension.
> >
> > In a critical review of a book by John Leland (whose earlier _Hip: a
> > History_ some of us may remember for its indulgence in “crying
> > Wolof”), _Happiness is a Choice You Make: Lessons From a Year Among
> > the Oldest Old_, Jessica Bruder describes Leland’s efforts at
> > “strip-mining” the experiences of his elders for moral lessons:
> >
> > When, late in the book, he shrugs off a woman’s suggestion that “I was
> > reading too much into things”, it’s hard not to laugh. She’s got his
> > number—he’s old-splaining.
> >
> > Elsewhere in the same issue, In a favorable review of a book by Elisha
> > Waldman entitled _This Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His
> > Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem,
> > Uzodinma Iweala writes:
> >
> > Waldman exhibits a rare self-awareness, avoiding the
> > "Middle-East-splaining” that often accompanies stories from the region.
> >
> > As Iweala suggests here, part of what it is to X-splain (as in
> > mansplaining itself) is to be un-self-aware (or maybe unaware more
> > generally—unwoke?).  I’m sure I’ve come across other attempts at
> > X-splaining—“whitesplaining” (or “white-’splaining”) gets a number of
> > hits and an urbandictionary entry--but two relatively novel ones in
> > the same section of a newspaper seems like a sign.  Maybe Ben will
> > remind me that the ATNW crew has already explored this culvert of
> > lexicon valley but I trust new data points are always useful.
> >
> > LH
> >


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